Professional clinical resources for Covid-19
Below are collected resources relating to Covid-19 from various professional bodies. This list is not exhaustive, and you should check the date on any guidance as part of deciding whether it is useful to inform your decision making.
Association of British Neurologists
- Guidance on Covid-19 for people with neurological conditions, their doctors and carers (added 1.4.2020).
British Association of Dermatologists
- Dermatology advice regarding immunosuppressed patients (updated 1.8.2020).
British Society of Gastroenterology
- Covid-19 advice for gastroenterology (updated 16.10.2020).
- Consensus advice for the management of IBD during the Covid-19 pandemic including risk stratification (updated 6.4.2020).
British Society for Haematology
- Covid-19 and haematological conditions (updated 15.7.2020).
British Thoracic Society
- Covid-19: Information for the respiratory community (updated16.7.2020)
British Pharmacological Society
- Ibuprofen and Covid-19 (added 1.4.2020).
British Society for Rheumatology
- Covid-19 rheumatological disease (updated 15.10.2020)
British Geriatrics Society
- Resources for coronavirus and older people (updated 7.9.2020).
- Managing Covid-19 in Care Homes (updated 2.6.2020).
- Geriatric basics for non-specialists (updated 3.4.2020).
Society for Endocrinology
- Covid-19 resources for managing endocrine conditions (added 1.4.2020).
Royal College of General Practioners
- Covid-19 resources from the RCGP (added 1.4.2020).
- RCGP guidance on workload prioritisation during Covid-19 (updated 11.1.2021).
- RCGP Learning - Telephone triage podcast (added 13.4.2020)
- Top 10 tips for Covid-19 telephone consultations (added 13.4.2020)
- Top tips for GP video consultation during Covid-19 pandemic (added 24.4.2020)
- Video consultation information for GPs (updated 22.7.2020)
Royal College of Nursing
- Covid-19 resource page (added 1.4.2020).
- RCN guidance on redeployment Covid-19 (updated 19.1.2021).
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Covid-19 and pregnancy (updated 14.10.2020).
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- RCPCH: Clinical pathways - remote assessment (updated 22.7.2020)
Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Guidance on the provision of contraceptive services during Covid-19 (added 1.4.2020).
NICE
- Covid-19 rapid guide on severe asthma (added 13.4.2020)
eGPlearning
- Video consultations: Top 5 tips for GPs and primary care (added 24.4.2020)
- Respiratory exam by video consultation - please note that the Roth score is no longer recommended (updated 6.7.2020)
- Quick video consultation skills for doctors (added 24.4.2020)
Academia
- The Centre for Evidence Medicine Covid-19 evidence service (updated 20.10.2020).
- UCLH Covid-19 related professional advice (added 2.4.2020).
- RCPCH Tonsillar examination guidance (added 13.04.2020).
- PCRS: Diagnosing and managing asthma attacks and people with COPD presenting in crisis during the UK Covid-19 epidemic (added 13.04.2020)
NHS England guidance
- Rheumatology: Urgent and Emergency Musculoskeletal Conditions Requiring Onward Referral (updated 19.1.2021).
- Rheumatology: Clinical guide for the management of rheumatology patients during the coronavirus pandemic (16.3.2020).
- Diabetes: Clinical guide for the management of people with diabetes during the coronavirus pandemic (updated 19.1.2021).
- Cancer: Clinical guide for the managment of non-coronavirus patients requiring acute treatment Cancer (updated 19.1.2021).
- Cardiology: Clinical guide for the management of cardiology patients during the coronavirus pandemic (updated 19.1.2021).
- Using Online Consultations in Primary Care - Summary Toolkit for Practices (24.4.2020)
- Remote Total Triage Blueprint (added 24.4.2020)
- Moving to online triage and consultations with Minal Bakhai and Dr Trish Greenhalgh (24.4.2020)
GMC Guidance
- How we will continue to regulate in light of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) (3.3.2020)
- Remote prescribing via telephone, video-link or online
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